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" Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by... "
The 'breakfast table' series. The autocrat of the breakfast-table. The ... - Page 44
by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 27

1867 - 912 pages
...the deep caves of thought, I hear a voice that sings." " Build thee more stately mansions, 0 my soul! As the swift seasons roll. Leave thy low-vaulted past; Let each new temple, nobler than the last. Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, . Leaving thine...
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The Garland of Poetry for the Young: A Selection in Four Parts

Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pages
...Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn ! Prom thy dead lips a clearer note is borne Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn ! "While...the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past I Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou...
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The Garland of Poetry for the Young: A Selection in Four Parts, Volumes 1-2

Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 710 pages
...lap, forlorn ! From thy dead lips a clearer note is borne Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn I While on mine ear it rings Through the deep caves...the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past I Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou...
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Our Dumb Animals

1889 - 226 pages
...drove on. If that horse was not intelligent, what was he?— Salem Evening Nevis. EXCELSIOR. Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift...low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine...
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Memoir of James P. Walker

James Perkins Walker - 1869 - 286 pages
...Holmes, in his poem on the Nautilus ; and I wish I could bring it home to every one of you : — " Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift...low-vaulted past, Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thy outgrown...
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A Manual of Elocution Founded Upon the Philosophy of the Human Voice

M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...and seek no meaner goal." PROMETHEUS. — Percival. I " Build thee more stately mansions, 0 my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past ! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thy outgrown...
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Memoir of James P. Walker

James Perkins Walker - 1869 - 286 pages
...wish I could bring it home to every one of you : — " Build thee more stately mansions, 0 my soul, A3 the swift seasons roll; Leave thy low-vaulted past, Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thy outgrown...
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The autocrat of the breakfast table, with an intr. by G.A. Sala

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 242 pages
...Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last -found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly...the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past ! I,et each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till t'hou...
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The Standard Fifth Reader: With a New Treatise on Elocution and an ..., Part 2

Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
...While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings : T. Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift...low-vaulted past ! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine...
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A Manual of Elocution Founded Upon the Philosophy of the Human Voice: With ...

M. S. Mitchell - 1870 - 416 pages
...for the soul Can take no lower flight, and seek no meaner goal." PROMETHEUS. —Pereival. •' Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift...low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thy outgrown...
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